in fairness, at the obama rally, there were obama fans there. they're not the problem. let me ask you the same question i asked joel. you're in touch with people who are suffering. what are the effects you've seen firsthand from sequestration on our fellow americans? >> some of the biggest ones are military families and education have received an enormous cut this year. there are -- at the national institutes of health, lead researchers are having to take furlough days which is disrupting research into ground break medicines and new ways of caring for people who are sick. there are thousands of medicare patients across the country that can't get access to cancer treatments because of this. there are children that are being, as you pointed out, being denied head start, a program which has been shown to save money in the long-term. and the same is true for the housing program. interesting thing is that the government that -- the republicans are actually campaigning against the government that doesn't exist anymore. you can't get government assistance in the united states